Mike Huckabee, the Republican presidential candidate and former Southern Baptist minister, is getting help from Tim LaHaye, the Christian conservative organizer and co-author of the apocalyptic “Left Behind” novels.
“America and our Judeo-Christian heritage are under attack by a force that is more destructive than any America has faced” since Hitler,Dr. LaHaye and his wife, Beverly, wrote in letters sent to lists of conservative Christians in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. “Defeating the radical jihadists will require renewed resolve and spiritual rearmament by the evangelical pastors in America.”
The letters were distributed in part through an e-mail list maintained by Mrs. LaHaye’s organization, Concerned Women for America, to encourage pastors to attend two-day conferences held in each state (free, including meals and a hotel room). Mr. Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, is the only candidate speaking.
As we watch the train wreck that is the Bush presidency careen to a long overdue stop, I cannot imagine that too many American voters would make the mistake of voting for anybody simply because he is supported by the most evangelical wing of the right wing. But if there are any voters who are so simple minded as to vote for the person who they believe will continue to add fuel to the conflagration in the Middle East, then Mike Huckabee would fit that bill.
However it also appears that Huckabee has a closet just stuffed with skeletons as reported by the good folks at AlterNet. If after reading that you are still a Mike Huckabee supporter then you obviously have problems of your own.
By the way due to the fact that I am still trying to digest the pounds of fattening, high calorie, food that I stuffed myself with last night I am exceedingly lazy and found both of these stories over at Crooks and Liars. So here is a hat tip to Nicole Bell who did all of the leg work over there.
God how do people eat like this all of the time. I am going to the gym in about two hours and see if I can sweat some of this gravy out of my system.
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Don't feed the trolls!
It just goes directly to their thighs.